nitro2k01 is the second part of the data airlines stockholm branch. As GameboyGenious he writes articles about anything he finds interesting that might concern chipmusic and its related subjects.

FACTEUR (TCHEAZ) is a guy of his time with a such distinguished epileptic elegance. Grown up with music, Facteur built up a very assertive aesthetic and his very own identity. By synthetizing widely varied experiences and years of miscellaneous influences, his sound offers us a both intimate and personal vision, a clearly futuristic look on tomorrow’s dancefloors. Converted to digital production techniques but still close to his analogical loves, Facteur embodies the perfect crossover between old and new school, the glorious past of a technoïde culture and the justified arrogance of home studio parangons.

During 2008, Facteur has shared scenes alongside artists such as Detroit gran pubahs (poker flat), Orgasmic (institubes), Léonard de léonard (ekler o shock), Terry poison (ekler o shock), Detect (mental groove), Strip steve (Boyz noise rec), Meisterfackt (Kitty yo).

Random, or William Rickman, is Data Airlines stockholmbased critique, reviewing internal and external releases.

Random started his chipmusic career in 2002 with the joke-band randomshitmotherburger, but quickly discovered that his interest in chipstyle sounds was no joke. Branching off as Random, he started making music with Game Boy in 2004, after being introduced to Carillon Tracker by Karawapo (of Pepino). Not long after that, Random was introduced to Little Sound DJ, and subsequently traded his soul to the Devil in exchange for supernatural tracking skills. But Random had the last laugh, putting all of his soul into his music – and the Devil, scorned, was robbed of his prize. Random has performed live in Sweden, Holland, Belgium and the US, and he used to be a co-organizer of one of Europe’s finest chip clubs, Microdisko.

Dubmood is a Swedish chip music producer ex-pat in Marseilles with roots in the pre-internet software piracy scene. Long-time member of the infamous Razor 1911 and active since 1996, considered somewhat of a style-originator and reference in the chip music community, Dubmood has brought mainstream popularity to the genre and inspired hordes of kids to bring out their game boys shout 8bit on the internet.
In 2004, dubmood left cyberspace to tour the world in different coalitions, founded Data Airlines and gained recognition as a popular producer and remixer. Dubmoods music is best described as dance floor-friendly fusion of 80s computer game music, IDM & Electro House with a lot of indie-rock & hip hop references.

Somewhere between metal thrashy guitar riffs and heavy bass lines there lies, Promwolf. Armed with a desire to create cold, digital, hard hitting dance music, he quickly learned that he had  to drop the vst’s and pick up an 8 bit machine to get that raw sound. Combine this, with a love for Acid Techno, Scandinavian Electro and korean pop music and you have one weird eclectic wolf.

Hailing from Connecticut, USA, Misfitchris started off playing his Casio keyboard alongside SNES games in a valiant effort to mimic his favorite video game composers. Then, in an attempt at venting his inevitable teenage angst, he picked up a guitar and started a punk band. He got his first taste of using computers to make music editing local bands with basic sound editing software. That eventually lead to the wunderkind toying around with digital audio workstations trying to emulate his favorite artists such as Daft Punk, Sebastien Leger, Aphex Twin, Square Pusher and Autechre. Then at 21 the budding electronic prodigy discovered chipmusic, a marriage of difficult trackers and minimal soundscapes, a match made in heaven.
Misfitchris quickly grew fond of this sound and in an unyielding attempt at perfection began his current project he has aptly dubbed “Fakebit”. His sound is a distinctive blend of the classic chip music he was weaned on and the heavy hitting house music that captivated him as a teen. MisfitChris has a sound that will conjure up feelings from days of old, like leaving final fantasy 3 on just to hear the music and the feeling of being the only one in the world to defeat the boss all rolled into a precise, masterfully crafted sonic eargasm. Misfitchris is everything you ever wanted to hear and everything your parents warned you about.

- Christopher G. Fox

Let me introduceANTiCLiMAX, aka Le Patron, to you. He will start posting DJ-mixes and write articles here on data airlines.net.
Some of our visitors might already have noticed Anticlimax from sharing flyers with dubmood and facteur as they are all three associated with the french collective Tcheaz.  This multi-talented is not only writing articles for french mag “Tsugi” but has also been DJing alongside by now known faces like Sinden, Kavinsky, Feadz, Yuksek and Surkin.  On top of this he is also maintaining a weekly radio show  on Grenouille 88.8 called bienvenue au club.  Before his first post, I wanted to ask him a few silly questions.

Q:You are going on about “Sale Sud” (Dirty South) but I guess it has nothing to do with American rappers do it?
A: No, its the description of Marseilles, its dirty, the music we mix is dirty, and its located plain south. I thought it was a good pinpoint and direction of what we are, really.

Q:  Whats 2009 going to bring for you?
A:  So far I’ve been hyperactive all year, but as a guideline, “2009 ca sera deux mille meufs”

Q (dub):  Do you like Jarre?
A:  Yes, he is a genius, a ridiculous megalomaniac but still…

ANTiCLiMAX’s post will be written in french but translated by effort of our army of depressive robots retired from 1950s sci-fi book covers. Sorry for the inconvinence.

It all began in the early 1990s. There was this kid who seemed to have just a little bit more interest in computers and electronic dance music than others. All around him, in all of Europe, the rave phenomenon was huge and the demoscene had made the way to most teenage boys rooms. A world was starting to form for this kid. It was a time of great beginnings, but he knew nothing of what would come.

So Damn Loud, born and raised in Gothenburg, emerged into the club scene from the digital art culture of the demoscene. Starting to compose at the age of 12, he is not new to electronic dance music. The tradition of very limited resources for composing created a very special blend of styles, and a unique perspective on music. Even if the limits are now removed, the heritage lives on in every demoscene musician, and also, in So Damn Loud.

The sound of So Damn Loud can’t be summarized to just a few words. It’s an ongoing, morphing process. Even though the basis of his style lies in the internet/blog-based electro-house-breakbeat movement, no aspect of the latest 20 years of dance music evolution is sacred. The result is a versatile yet relevant mixture of then and now. Especially distinctive is the high energy of the music, something that was very important with the demoscene soundtracks, and still is in contemporary electronic dance music.

Even though he is a newcomer to the scene, So Damn Loud has played records alongside acts like DJ Mehdi (Ed Banger), Vicarious Bliss (Ed Banger), DatA (ELKROSHCK/Naïve) and Crystal Castles (Merok/Trouble/Last Gang).

Who she is, we dont think she knows, or cares, but thoose vectors really looks great on her.